India registered as many as 13,166 new COVID-19 infections with a positivity rate of 1.28 percent and 302 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Friday.
The single-day rise of fresh infections took the total tally of cases in the country to 42,894,345. Of this figure, India's active caseload currently stands at 134,235 which accounts for 0.31 percent of the total cases.
The government data said today that 302 fresh fatalities pushed India's death toll to 513,226.
Moreover, total recoveries moved up to 42,246,884 including 26,988 recoveries in the last 24 hours. With this, the recovery rate currently is at 98.49 percent, the Union Ministry informed.
As far as COVID-19 tests are concerned, 1,030,016 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours thereby taking the daily positivity rate to 1.28 percent.
The ministry informed that about 1.7686 billion vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive to fight against the virus.
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